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Volume 17 Number 2 Fall 2007
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Introducing the Issue
Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill
Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill are senior editors of The Future of Children, co-directors of the Center on Children and Families, and senior fellows in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where Sawhill holds the Cabot Family Chair. Haskins is also a senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

 
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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families
Gordon L. Berlin
Gordon L. Berlin is president of MDRC. He wishes to thank Sheldon Danziger and Frank Levy for generously sharing their ideas and suggestions; and Ron Haskins, John Hutchins, Charles Michalopoulos, Cynthia Miller, Wendell Primus, Belle Sawhill, Timothy Smeeding, and Robert Solow for their many insights and helpful comments on earlier drafts. He is indebted to Andy Sum and the Center for Labor Market Studies for the Current Population Survey eligibility and cost estimates.

 
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Toward a Mandatory Work Policy for Men
Lawrence M. Mead
Lawrence M. Mead is professor of politics at New York University. He gratefully acknowledges comments on earlier drafts from Ron Haskins, Isabel Sawhill, Harry Holzer, Gordon Berlin, Swati Desai, and participants in the authors’ conference for this volume of The Future of Children.

 
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Next Steps for Federal Child Care Policy
Mark Greenberg
Mark Greenberg is executive director of the Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress, while on leave from the Center for Law and Social Policy. In preparing this paper, he benefited from assistance by Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Avi Perry and conversations with and comments from Gina Adams, Helen Blank, Ajay Chaudry, Dave Edie, Danielle Ewen, Julia Isaacs, Joan Lombardi, Elaine Maag, Hannah Matthews, Anne Mitchell, Adele Robinson, and Louise Stoney, as well as the comments of Ron Haskins, Isabel Sawhill, and participants in the Brookings Institution seminar. Arloc Sherman generated an enormously helpful set of numbers for the cost estimates. The author is solely responsible for the analysis and recommendations and for the assumptions used in estimating costs.

 
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A Health Plan to Reduce Poverty
Alan Weil
Alan Weil is the executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy.

 
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Decreasing Nonmarital Births and Strengthening Marriage to Reduce Poverty
Paul R. Amato and Rebecca A. Maynard
Paul R. Amato is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography at the Pennsylvania State University. Rebecca A. Maynard is University Trustee Chair Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. The authors thank Robin Dion, Howard Markman, Theodora Ooms, Scott Stanley, the editors of this volume, and the participants in the authors’ conference at Princeton University on October 12–13, 2006, for helpful comments and suggestions.

 
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Reducing Poverty through Preschool Interventions
Greg J. Duncan, Jens Ludwig, and Katherine A. Magnuson
Greg J. Duncan is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Jens Ludwig is professor of social services administration, law, and public policy at the University of Chicago and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Katherine A. Magnuson is an assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The authors are grateful for support provided by the Buffett Early Childhood Fund and the McCormick Tribune Foundation to the National Forum on Early Childhood Program Evaluation. They thank Amy Claessens, Dorothy Duncan, Irv Garfinkel, Ron Haskins, James Heckman, Craig Ramey, Arthur Reynolds, Larry Schweinhart, Belle Sawhill, and seminar participants at the Brookings Institution and Princeton University for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. They also thank Clive Belfield for additional results for the Perry Preschool program, and Katie Clabby for excellent research assistance. All opinions and any errors are their own.

 
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Improving the Education of Children Living in Poverty
Richard J. Murnane
Richard J. Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He thanks David Cohen, Michael Cohen, Richard Elmore, Nora Gordon, Harry Holzer, Julia Isaacs, Brian Jacob, Jack Jennings, Susan Johnson, James Kemple, Daniel Koretz, Robert Linn, Lawrence Mead, Jal Mehta, Jerome Murphy, Thomas Payzant, Edward Pauly, Paul Reville, Robert Schwartz, Adria Steinberg, David Stern, and William Taylor for valuable conversations about the topic of this paper. He also thanks Jesse Rothstein and the editors of this issue for valuable comments on earlier drafts. Finally, he thanks Trent Kaufman and John Papay for helpful research assistance.

 
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Improving the Safety Net for Single Mothers Who Face Serious Barriers to Work
Rebecca M. Blank
Rebecca M. Blank is the Henry Carter Adams Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. The author is grateful to Brian Kovak and Emily Beam for excellent research assistance.

 
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